60 Years of Scientific Excellence

When the Cancer Research Institute was founded in 1953, we knew then that immune-based treatments would transform cancer medicine. In more than six decades since, we've made numerous groundbreaking discoveries that have given more patients new hope today.

Oliver R. Grace Award

The Oliver R. Grace Award for Distinguished Service in Advancing Cancer Research recognizes corporate and community leaders and other laypeople who have helped to advance cancer research through their fundraising, advocacy, or awareness efforts.

The Institute’s Oliver R. Grace Award recognizes the contributions of dedicated companies and individuals whose leadership has had a significant impact on cancer research. It is named in memory of Oliver R. Grace, CRI’s founding chairman, who died in 1992 and received the award posthumously the following year.

In 1975, CRI founder Helen Coley Nauts was the first recipient of this award, which is a commemorative medal. Other recipients include Mary Lasker in 1977 and Lewis Thomas, M.D., in 1987.

2014

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

Jacques C. Nordeman
Chairman, Nordeman Grimm, Inc.

2013

Bahija Jallal, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President, Research and Development
AstraZeneca